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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere), written by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, is a poem that recounts the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage.
The albatross visits the Mariner and his crew in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, illustrated in 1876 by Gustave Doré. The word albatross is sometimes used metaphorically to mean a psychological burden (most often associated with guilt or shame) that feels like a curse.
The albatross as a superstitious relic is referenced in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's well-known 1798 poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. It is considered very unlucky to kill an albatross; in Coleridge's poem, the narrator killed the bird and his fellow sailors eventually force him to wear the dead bird around his neck.
An albatross is a seabird with a deep history as a literary metaphor, with roots in Samuel Taylor (Taylor, get it?) Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
It is widely thought that an albatross can bring luck to sailors. The avian creature also appears in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” The poem is interpreted ...
Engraving of a scene from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The frozen crew and the albatross by Gustave Doré (1876) Coleridge wrote reviews of Ann Radcliffe's books and The Mad Monk, among others. He comments in his reviews: "Situations of torment, and images of naked horror, are easily conceived; and a writer in whose works they abound ...
Others have connected the theory to “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” a year 1798 poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which introduced an albatross metaphor after the bird — which symbolizes ...
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner "It is an Ancient Mariner" 1797-98 1798 Lyrical Ballads Sonnets attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers "Pensive at eve on the hard world I mus'd," 1797 1797, November Parliamentary Oscillators "Almost awake? Why, what is this, and whence," 1798 1798, January 6 Christabel.